The Absentminded Avenger rides again!

Or, I left my keys in the house today in between two different sorts of shopping trips. Got panicky, retraced my steps to make sure I hadn't dropped them somewhere on my travels, and came back to the house to find that I had left them on the counter. Managed to avoid the panic attack by reasoning that the house was still the most likely place they would be, and remembering dimly that I hadn't had to fumble with keys when I had my wallet out a couple times. Luckily, a roommate was home, and the snow that had been falling for the whole day was packing snow, the good kind. So I bounced a snowball off the screen (well, thought it was the unscreened pane) and got my roommate's attention to let me in. Panic averted. I really wish I wasn't so absentminded. My mind works a lot this access control point. Better, perhaps than sleepwalking, perhaps. (Especially if it involves my weight fluctuating. I'm fairly certain I don't need any more or less weight than I have... my sisters would say that were I to lose any weight, the wind would carry me away.)

There's some interesting research that says we might be all a bit precognitive, at least in the sense of "I have a bad feeling about this".

Plus, in a startlingly unprecedented move, the U.S. government may in fact be helping millions stop their T.V. addiction. Anyone taking bets now as to how many people buy the digital stuff just so they can watch "reality" television? And then they do it because real reality is just too much for them? Ever since I've come to college, my television-watching has fallen dramatically. Mind you, my devices for distraction are my computer and vid gaming systems, only one of which I actually have right now. Unless there was good programming on, or sports I don't really watch T.V. these days. (There is some cheering somewhere in the background.)

There's nothing quite like a good snowstorm, really. Unfortunately, my winter coat lost a handle on the waist control, and so now it's too big for me about the waist. Flattening the waist leaves the neck vulnerable to snow if the hood is down. I really wish companies would make a jacket that is my height and not intended for someone twice my circumference. It's really not that hard, I suspect, but the problem with stuff is that once it strays into the "tall" range, it usually also assumes "big", which I am not. Thus, the wind is always something to worry about, which is usually what I'm trying to protect against when I'm wearing my coats. *sigh*.

On the upside, today was, as I had predicted at the outset, a day of much walking, looking, and getting snowed on. A carefree day of sorts, which is always good for a Sunday. Tomorrow, it's back to schooling and such, but hopefully things won't be too bad. Just need to do some reading for the thesis so that I can reference other people in relation to my own work. The scholarly part, really. I'm just not exactly sure how I can work that part into it. But I'll figure it out. Plus, I get to listen to some revolutionary socialist thinking. It's funny because I'm a friendly, really, rather than an adversary. So I'm really poking their brains to see how they plan on doing things rather than poking holes in their philosophy. After all, most things work on paper - it's when you apply it to people that the problems begin. And besides, there's an appeal to the idea that everyone would have their basic needs taken care of, and could thus work on whatever they really wanted to. There might be a few sacrifices made in gadgetry and other such things, until the people who want to design them do and the people who want to manufacture them do (mm, there's something to ask - who controls the manufacturing plants and decides what gets made?) but we'll probably be okay. As przxqgl noted, first we have to convince people that it can be done, then we can quibble over details.

In some of my wanderings today, I came across a place that is well-suited to the environment of this town - it sells sweatshop-free materials (so it claims), books and stickers and shirts that promote activist messages and other such things... it was nice... it took me five or ten minutes just to get up the stairs, with all the material they had posted. Plus, they had Demotivators, too. And incense and wicca calendars. And strongly political stuff. It's a nice place. I'll go back there, probably. Maybe I'll buy the Aphex Twin they had there, if it's still there when I go back. If not, oh well.

All in all, a most interesting day today. Would that there were more like it - but always interesting in different ways.